27/12/2025

God knows that I have already tried to begin this day in awareness that I have to choose to know, love and obey. He does not force himself into my being but welcomes me back from sleep into His Love that never sleeps but promises to maintain all that "is" in existence until the end of time.

Now, some time after waking-up, I am still making that "Act of will" to avoid sin by now opening my heart to the guidance of the Scriptures chosen to be part of today's liturgical re-enactment both in time and in eternity of the completion of Incarnate WORD'S life on earth.

In the first reading John addresses us as "Beloved" for he really knows that that is what he himself is. He is the "Beloved Disciple" who knows that that is the complete meaning of "and your neighbour as yourself" which is not a "Second Commandment" but rather the completed Act of Obedience to " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, mind and strength". 

We are all "Beloved". The babe in the manger hearing the breathing of ox, ass and sheep, feeling their touch and smelling their dung, scratched by straw and hungry for his mother's milk, this total human weakness that is every baby has chosen to become thus out of ETERNAL LOVE that knows each individual human being that has, is and will ever be created. His Love is available to bring us all to salvation.

I know that human words can never express the immensity that is God. 

Incarnation, Nativity, Crucifixion, Resurrection are four words that have generated billions of others but they are much more than words for they are the temporal acts of ETERNAL LOVE of  which  John is a witness to TRUTH when he addresses us as "Beloved" for that is what each of is to "Our Father, Abba" as he "forgives us our trespasses" in the pain of Calvary. Amen